Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,871, Jason Gay, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Gay, Jason
S. 44871
CONTENTS

Orange county, N.Y. Jason Gay, Sam l B. Private Col Webb's Regiment Connecticut Line
3 years
25 th April, 1818. found on the rolls.
Admitted.
Stephen Jackson, & John Stewart, judges, Goshen, Orange County, N. York.

State of Vermont Orange County - } ss Eusebius Austin of the town of Wallkill in Orange County being duly sworn, saith that he is well acquainted with Jason Gay the soldier named in subjo has subscribed the affidavits hereto annexed. That this deponent has known him the said Jason Gay for nearly thirty years last past - that this deponent fully believes the facts as stated by the said Jason Gay as to his service in the revolutionary war are true and that his belief is founded upon the information of the said Jason Gay from the time he first became acquainted with the said Jason Gay until the present time - And this deponent further saith that the said Jason Gay is now in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support Sworn the 20 th October - Eusebius Austin 1818 before me -
Stephen Jackson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Orange County -

State of New York Orange County - ss I Stephen Jackson one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Orange County do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Eusebius Austin who has subscribed the within affidavits and that the facts stated therein by him is satisfactory evidence to me of the truth of the facts set forth in the said affidavits - and I am further certify that I am also acquainted with the said Jason Gay & that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support - Date 30th Oct 1818
Stephen Jackson
State of New York Orange County - ss
I David M. Westcott Clerk of the said County of Orange do hereby certify that Stephen Jackson Esq. one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County - and that the signature "Stephen Jackson" within and above written is the proper hand writing of him the said Stephen Jackson - In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said County of Orange the twentieth day of October 1818.
D. M. Westcott

John Steward Judge &c as aforesaid do certify that it appear to my satisfaction that the said Mason Gay did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declarations against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the above mentioned act of Congress
John Steward
State of New York } I David M. Westcott Clerk of Orange County } the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Orange do hereby certify that that John Steward Esq r is one of the Judges of the said Court of Common Pleas - and that his signature to the preceding Affidavit & Certificate is the proper hand writing of the said John Steward - In Witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the said Court the 25 th day of April 1818
D. M. Westcott

State of New York } Orange County } }
On this Twentyfifth day of April 1878 before me the subscriber one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Orange personally appears Jason Gay aged Sixty eight years resident in the town of Goshen in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" That he the said Jason Gay has performed services previous to the date of the paper above annexed but from the confused state of the army at that time cannot distinctly rec- -ect the names of the officers or the regiments he served in further than can be gathered from the said pass. That he the said Jason Gay enlisted in New York  Danbury in the state of Connecticut  Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Stephen Betts in Col Saml B Webb's Regiment of the Connecticut line as will

more fully appear by the annexed Certificate that he continued to serve in said Company and Regiment until in the service of the United States until about the 1 st of May 1783 when he was dismissed from service at Westpoint in the State of New York by a written pass which held him subject to return and serve the residue of his time if called on but was not afterwards called on says he has not the paper in his possession but thinks it was signed by a Major Walker who he believes was said to one of the Generals then in Command at Westpoint that he was at the battle of White Plains and at the affair at Danbury and Ridgebury when General Wooster was killed and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said said services
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid —
Jason Gray
Before me John Stewart

Gay, Jason Conn. S 44891

I Do Acknowledge my Self a Soldier Voluntary Enlisted to serve in the Connecticut Line in the Continental army for the term of three years unless sooner Discharged to Gine any Regiment I Shall Be appointed to and So Hold myself subject to the rules and regulations of the army as Witness my Hand the 1 st Day of February in the year 1778
47 The above is a true Copy Wm Gray

Gay, Jason Conn. S 44871

East Boston 18 th February A.D. 1877
Permit the Bearer Jason Gay to pass home to Dukes County his time being out 47 in My Company in Nazer District Red Jacket Given by Me Isaac Padack Superintendent

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Jason Gay Bis. Rev. War
Act: 18" March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 186
[Arrangement of 1870.]